Where do you clean your fish!!!!!!!

[north shore]

Just wondering where everybody cleans there catch of the day. I have a new house with a large 5 x 15 ft center island in the kitchen. Custom counter top and the like. I have a filet board but the fish get cleaned in the house. HMMMMMMM. I do pay half the mortgage.:D . Oh well. it seems to go over ok but i do have to clean up my mess. :) Have a great day

[TrailFndr]

Downstairs laundry room in the winter...OUTSIDE if weather permits...LOL...

[daddyduck]

In the heated garage of course.:cool:

[Moss_835]

Clean fish, waterfowl, and small game on the deck weather permitting otherwise in the garage...cleaning fish or game inside is a no-no for sure ...following this simple rule has kept me married for over 35+ yrs....
North Shore...must be more than just paying half the morgage what's the secret tell us more......
:D :D :D :D

Moss

[Asphalt Dave]

Outside in the summer, right on the center island in the winter.
Like the fellow ahead of me said, it's half my house. I don't make her do her hair perms. outside. You ever smell those things?

[patcheroo]

On LOTS of news paper on the kitchen table. I do have to clean up the mess though :D ......Patch

[WALLEYE MIKE]

Winter time in the kitchen. Getting new Corian countertops tomorrow. Think the wife will let me use it as a cutting and cleaning board.:D

[Mule Skinner]

Use to clean em in my basement before it was finished(drywall&carpet).Now its all done in my garage,which has no heat.

[chad 1]

I also do mine In my heated garage.
No way I would do it in the kitchen! I know I pay half the morgage but I still have to live with her.:eek:

chad1

[WALLEYEvision]

...on a cutting board in the kitchen that usually weighs 10X more than my fish! :D :p ;) :) :cool: :eek:

[tommy-n]

Out in the heated garage, with utilty sink and water(cold) and sometimes in the house on the counter. Only if the wife and kids are not getting on my nerve's, then it's back in the garage and maybee have a cold one, ok a cold one for sure.:D

[stampman]

I let my wife clean them where ever she wants to.;) ;) ;)

[tommy-n]

Does she have a sister:D

[flyrod4steelhead]

Used to clean 'em in the kitchen, but not no more. Now it's in the basement, with a sink to rinse everything off. On ocasion, I will clean them in the kitchen,but tell the warden that, lol :D

You guys are too funny :D:D

[Ruler]

Normally the basement, but I have to move the table saw and belt sander to do so. They're scaled and field dressed down there, then filleted on the kitchen table. Big fish are cleaned on the kitchen table completely.

Wrapping fish guts is one thing the bay city times works wonderfully for! :D ;)

[ybone]

in my workshop, front room-breezeway. have a 2ft by 5ft fold up table that works great. (easy to hide from the wife so she doesn't know where i've been all day)

[redwinger00]

When we were first married 14 wonderfully long years ago we lived in an apartment together. Well living quarters as they where there was no where to clean my game. I had skinned out a coon in the bath tub while the wife was at work. Imagine her surprise................

Anyhow over those same 14 long......er.....wonderful years she has been very understanding of my fishing and hunting and I do most of the cleaning of game on a cutting board right on the counter.

[bully06]

I clean them in the basement, I put lots of newspaper over the washing machng and dryer which I use for a counter top with my cutting board. The wife still hates it she runs around the house lighting scented candles everywhere.

[Fishfoote]

Tailgate of the truck - had a mess of'em last Sunday - fingers were froze, starting to get dark...I gotta make some room in the garage:rolleyes:

[William H Bonney]

Kitchen sink for me. Here's the trick though, get a 14" x 20" wood cutting board and drill 3/8" holes all over it, then "straddle" it over the sink, I have a "double" sink, so it works great, fish in one sink, cutting board over the other. All the fish slime, just drains right through the board. I also took a black "sharpie" and made the whole cutting board into a big ruler,, horizontally and vertically, so I know EXACTLY how big the fish are, right when I'm cleaning 'em, it also makes it nice for pics,,, don't have to toss the MGD can in there anymore.

[MGV]

On the tailgate of the truck if possible. Easy to clean up. In the winter Grandma's Basement. In the summer in the garage or the barn.

[RichP]

Down in my old creepy basement. I installed a sink and ran cable tv down there just for that reason. Might as well have some entertainment if you've got a bunch of fish to cut up...

[wruebs]

A big cutting board on top of a pair of sawhorses just outside the garage door. A 5gal. bucket for entrails and a water hose to rinse off everything into the grass. Toss the guts in the sand out back(4 acre yard) for the crows or bury them in the garden if I'm ambitious. The crows do a remarkable job though.....

[Marcellus Bodi]

Hi,
I have a Laundry tub with a board that I made for the top in the basement.How ever I do not scale fish in the basement .I do that in the garage with a bucket deal that I use a drillmotor with.

[UBDSLO1]

heated garage. I HATE cleaning fish.:o :mad: :eek:

[fatboy]

Kitchen island counter ! It's no problem cause the wife loves salmon and walleye !

[Walleye123]

she is ok with me cleaning those fish in the kitchen,,,she helps!

[E Man]

Kitchen counter on cutting board. What's the big deal with cleaning fish inside?
EO

[Whit1]

In the kitchen, where else?

A tip: Rather than newspaper I keep a roll of freezer paper handy. It holds up MUCH better than newsprint.

[Jumpshootin']

On the kitchen counter using an old cutting board.

[Zeboy]

Big Fish on the deck.

Smaller fish in the laundry room. Next to the sink.

When I had the house built 10 years ago, I had the builder raise the sink and cabinets / counter in my laundry room up about 10" (he thought I was crazy). Therefore, I can stand and fillet fish without getting that nasty kink in the middle of your back from being a "little" hunched over.

Fortunately the Lake Michigan perch boom was on when I planned the house. The recent memories of filleting 100 perch at a time were fresh on my mind.

If anyone's ever building or remodeling a house, I strongly suggest it.

[twoatatime]

Right next to the kitchen sink. I throw the fish in the sink, and sometime they start swimming again. Use a lot of newspaper, and throw the rest away. I even have a partner that cleans them with me. I got it made.

[ih772]

On my fish cleaning board on top of the clothes dryer next to my laundry tub.